Ford can’t find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade
Farley complained that ”we don’t have trade schools anymore,” reports Avi Zilber in the New York Post. The Ford CEO’s grandfather was one of the company’s early employees, hired to work on the Model T. “We are not investing in educating a next generation of people like my grandfather who had nothing, who built a […]
Having Fun with Complex Numbers: A Real-Life Journey for Upper Elementary Studen
Having Fun with Complex Numbers A Real-Life Journey for Upper Elementary Studentsby Dr. Qiujiang Lu Book description Welcome to the amazing world of math—made just for kids like you! Are you between 8 and 12 years old? Then get ready—this book is your gateway to unlocking the true power of math! Regular numbers represent positions—called […]
GitHub Down
It is insane how many failures we’ve been getting lately, especially related to actions. * jobs not being picked up * jobs not being able to be cancelled * jobs running but showing up as failed * jobs showing up as failed but not running * jobs showing containers as pushed successfully to GitHub’s registry, […]
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The Final Straw: Why Companies Replace Once-Beloved Technology Brands
What causes a business to abandon hardware, software, or tools it once relied on? Enumerating the common reasons helps you recognize when it’s time to move on. Once upon a time, your company ran Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect on Novell servers, wrote its custom applications in Turbo Pascal and Visual Basic, and used Nortel or […]
OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad
This document is a complement to the README in the Github repository. The README provides information about performance, capabilities, and tests. This document reflects more on the why and how OrthoRoute was developed. This is a project born out of necessity. Another thing I was working on needed an enormous backplane. A PCB with sixteen […]
I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
After nearly 10 years, I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon and transferring my ownership of the trademark and other assets to the Mastodon non-profit. Over the course of my time at Mastodon, I have centered myself less and less in our outward communications, and to some degree, this is the culmination of […]
Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript
guts is a tool to convert golang types to typescript for enabling a consistent type definition across the frontend and backend. It is intended to be called and customized as a library, rather than as a command line executable. See the simple example for a basic usage of the library. type SimpleType[T comparable] struct { […]
Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward
I believe the Pebble community, Core Devices, Rebble and I all want the same thing. We love our Pebbles and want them to keep working long into the future. We love the community that has sprung up around Pebble, and how it’s persevered – next year will be the 14th anniversary of the original Kickstarter […]
Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn’t made any feature-length sequels. This is a nightmare […]